Indeed practice makes perfect and as I heard an instructor say one day, "When you practice and do it wrong every time, you will get better and better at doing it wrong! You must do it right occasionally to make a difference!"
We were all having a bad day that day.

I do need more practice and yes it is for scratch building but the Higley benders need to be chucked up in a vise! I must say that I live in a small apartment and have no workbench and use my table to build on. A vise would really be a nice thing to have. For those of you who have one, think how life would be without!

Perhaps I need something like this: http://www.ncsl.co.uk/wirebender/ but smaller. K&S has something similar. The Mighty bender is much like the other one but they also have a mini bender both of which are at Tower. I do like the one in the UK.
I have never seen one in person to know how any work and most are capable of much larger wire than I need.

Robert